Aimee Ortiz
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🗞️ New York Times reporter 📧
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I guess I should also do one of these. Hello new followers I’m a reporter at NYT. I don’t post very often. I didn’t post much in the other place either. I’ll try to be better about it. But you can bet your ass I’m lurking 👀 Here are some gift links to things I’ve written this year:
about 1 year ago
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We stand in solidarity with the
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#SaveThePost
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6 days ago
Two nights a week at Refettorio Harlem, a nonprofit restaurant and food pantry, chefs turn donated food that would otherwise go to waste into a multicourse dinner that is served to anyone who is hungry. The chef Massimo Bottura said he wanted to “create places where food becomes a connector.”
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In a Harlem Church, a Free Three-Course Dinner, No Questions Asked
Two nights a week at Refettorio Harlem, chefs turn donated food that would otherwise go to waste into a multicourse dinner that is served to anyone who is hungry.
https://nyti.ms/4bJLHej
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Amid the chaos, I’ve been thinking a lot about what Mr. Rogers said: “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” So I did just that. And I found them in Harlem, feeding body and soul. This is the story of Refettorio Harlem
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In a Harlem Church, a Free Three-Course Dinner, No Questions Asked
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/nyregion/refettorio-harlem-nyc-free-food.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GVA.Abel.7Tb4YnDzAcvh&smid=nytcore-ios-share
7 days ago
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2 months ago
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3 months ago
A prolonged drought and other factors have muffled the kaleidoscopic blend of reds, oranges and yellows in some areas of New England this fall. As a result, disappointed leaf peepers have been left to wonder what fall will look like in a changing climate.
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Drought Mutes Leaf-Peeping Season
A prolonged drought and other factors have muffled the kaleidoscopic blend of reds, oranges and yellows in some areas of New England this fall.
https://nyti.ms/48BtQVx
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4 months ago
“Memory is the way you have an afterlife in the Roman world,” she said. “To be remembered is to exist beyond your regular lifetime.”
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Ancient Roman Gravestone Found in New Orleans Backyard Touches Off a Mystery
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/roman-tablet-new-orleans.html?smid=bs-share
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Andrea Z
7 months ago
Print hub is the best crew in the biz (and thanks to our presses for holding)
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I should really stop listening to my running playlist while I can’t run
8 months ago
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Ben Casselman
8 months ago
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is cutting back its collection of data on consumer prices, raising questions about the reliability of federal economic statistics under President Trump.
#EconSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...
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U.S. Is Trimming Back Its Collection of Consumer Price Data
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/business/bls-price-data-collection.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Mk8.jHeG.5Dy8qzueq7Hw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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This one is about the first amateur sumo club in NYC. When Oscar Dolan realized there were no amateur clubs in the city, he begrudgingly started his own. That was three years ago. Earlier this month, the club held its first tournament. But this about more than sumo. It’s about community
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At This N.Y.C. Sumo Club, ‘Everybody Gets Thrown’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/nyregion/new-york-sumo-club-amateur.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K08.p-xj.If929LFbHJRt
8 months ago
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This one is about a tiny zoo that’s opening in Brooklyn. Earlier this month I got a preview of The Gecko Gallery NYC where visitors will get a chance to hang with about 150 lizards in a roughly 400-square-foot room. It opens this weekend
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Meet Dozens of Gecko Species at a Tiny Brooklyn Zoo
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/nyregion/gecko-gallery-brooklyn-zoo.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JE8.dkUo.lG0qbFf4W2GT&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
8 months ago
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This one is about traditional Chinese medicine shops, tariffs, and access to health care
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‘How Do I Survive?’: Tariffs Threaten U.S. Market for Traditional Chinese Medicine
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/business/traditional-chinese-medicine-herbs-tariffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F08.ecdQ.kSFWQ4oU7qkB&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
9 months ago
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This one is about overspending, overconsumption, shopping addiction, marketing, and consumers who are pushing back.
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Why Consumers Are Cutting Back on Shopping and Embracing ‘No Buy 2025’ (Gift Article)
Marketers followed consumers to social media and their phones. “Low Buy 2025” influencers are sharing tips for how to resist them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/business/shopping-addiction-no-buy-2025.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U4.zJf3.VSy9U1jq4FUC&smid=url-share
11 months ago
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This one is about roses, tulips, sustainability, and love (all kinds of it). I know there’s a lot going on in the world, but there’s also some beauty. Come for the details on the tulip’s quiet war on roses, stay for the absolutely gorgeous photos 🌷
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Should Tulips Replace Roses for Valentine’s Day? Florists Think So. (Gift Article)
Roses have long been the flower of choice for the holiday, but some see an opening for the humble tulip.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/business/valentines-day-tulips-roses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.w04.y9c3.55g9gKzGrLO8&smid=url-share
12 months ago
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The night before a story runs: 😳🤢🤢🤢🥴🥴🥴😵💫😵💫😵💫
12 months ago
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Southern California is burning. Here's how you can help:
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How to Help Victims of the Fires in Los Angeles (Gift Article)
Raging fires have left five people dead, destroyed or damaged thousands of homes and other buildings and consumed thousands of acres. Here’s how you can help the victims.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/us/help-california-la-wildfires-victims.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n04.q12r.ade2ZgsKwIv5&smid=url-share
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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This one is about small businesses and holiday markets where shopping becomes “a little bit more wholesome.”
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Holiday Shopping, Up Close and Personal (Gift Article)
The experience of interacting with small business owners at winter markets makes holiday shopping “a little bit more wholesome” for some visitors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/business/holiday-markets-nyc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU4.XYy0.nOzy2Kp5nAfD&smid=url-share
about 1 year ago
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erin mccann
about 1 year ago
Some reeeeeeeeal Tuesday-before-Thanksgiving vibes going on at CNN today
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This one is about food, family, modernity and business. It's a love story packaged in a can of vanilla ice cream. It's the tale of a downfall that was decades in the making. This one is about Yelloh, formerly Schwan's Home Delivery, and how it closed
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Yelloh, Formerly Schwan’s Home Delivery, Closes (Gift Article)
The frozen food delivery company, known for its yellow trucks, has closed after losing ground to its competitors and renaming itself Yelloh.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/business/yelloh-schwan-food-delivery-closes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b04.GA9P.xBJ1DEPHTSsy&smid=url-share
about 1 year ago
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Picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
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about 1 year ago
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I guess I should also do one of these. Hello new followers I’m a reporter at NYT. I don’t post very often. I didn’t post much in the other place either. I’ll try to be better about it. But you can bet your ass I’m lurking 👀 Here are some gift links to things I’ve written this year:
about 1 year ago
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erin mccann
about 1 year ago
NYT starter pack? NYT starter pack.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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We got gifs now?!?
about 1 year ago
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“Society looks at women who choose not to make life harder for themselves as crazy.”
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Kids? A Growing Number of Americans Say, ‘No, Thanks.’
A new study breaks down the reasons more U.S. adults say they are unlikely to have children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/well/mind/child-free-adults-pew-study.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E0.k0tO.8rd4WXRx6DTs&smid=url-share
over 1 year ago
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Andrea Z
almost 2 years ago
Follow the guild 😵💫 follow the guild 😵💫 you are getting sleepy follow the guild 😵💫
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I stand with my
@nytguildtech.bsky.social
colleagues as they bargain for their first contract.
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almost 2 years ago
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Renewing your passport is wild. Shipping off all of your most sensitive information + a check for more than $100 with nothing more than a hope and a dream that it doesn’t get lost or fall into bad hands. Then you just wait for it to theoretically come back to you. I was not built for this anxiety
almost 2 years ago
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There’s a trillion cicadas coming this spring
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The World Hasn’t Seen Cicadas Like This Since 1803
Brood XIX and Brood XIII will both emerge this spring. The last time these bugs showed up at the same time in the United States, Thomas Jefferson was president.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/science/cicadas-emergence-broods.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O00.64PR.LSBZF6fj4-NH&smid=url-share
about 2 years ago
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Maggie Astor
about 2 years ago
Here's my final report on tonight's ruling. Gift link:
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Trump Is Disqualified From 2024 Ballot, Colorado Court Says in Explosive Ruling
The decision, the first by a court to find that Donald Trump is ineligible to hold office again because he engaged in insurrection, is likely to put a monumental case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/us/politics/trump-colorado-ballot-14th-amendment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HU0.1LRE.BR2VeuIGgm1U&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share
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Reupping this because ya girl needs recs!
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about 2 years ago
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Hidden in a corner of Central Park there lives a tree that if you walk by at just the right time of the year will share with you its secret identity as the Pet Memorial Christmas Tree… My latest:
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In Central Park, Pets Are Remembered With a Secret Christmas Tree
The tree, which has been decorated each year between Thanksgiving and Three Kings Day since the 1980s, is a chance for owners to publicly memorialize their pets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/17/nyregion/central-park-pets-memorial-tree.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Gk0.9X6l.cpN1kwcCT2ta&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 2 years ago
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What’s your favorite holidays horror movie? I’m trying to plan xmas week! All subgenres are welcome
about 2 years ago
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New York’s Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients. Gift link:
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A Famed Hospital Churns Poor Patients Through Weight-Loss Surgery
New York’s Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/business/bariatric-surgery-bellevue-hospital.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EE0.9L-N.1dhqYE5HQ8hU&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 2 years ago
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New headshots, new gig: Some professional news
www.nytco.com/press/aimee-...
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Aimee Ortiz Joins Express | The New York Times Company
https://www.nytco.com/press/aimee-ortiz-joins-express/
about 2 years ago
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Utterly devastated at how well foam rolling your back works
about 2 years ago
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Baby’s first bread 🍞
over 2 years ago
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The New York Times
over 2 years ago
Ten years after a court order ruled that children of Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic were not entitled to citizenship, many people born on Dominican soil live in fear of arrest or expulsion as the government's deportation strategy intensifies.
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They’ve Been Stateless for 10 Years. Now Many Are Facing Deportation.
Ten years after a court order ruled that children of Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic were not entitled to citizenship, many live in fear of arrest or expulsion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/06/world/americas/haiti-dominican-republic-deportation.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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@kmascara.bsky.social
thank you for SAVING MY LIFE
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over 2 years ago
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True story: I was attacked by a lantern fly TWICE
over 2 years ago
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👻 It is time.
over 2 years ago
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The New York Times
over 2 years ago
A female sea lion escaped from her enclosure at the Central Park Zoo briefly on Friday, swimming out of her pool when the heavy rains lashing New York City flooded the zoo grounds: “We watched it explore around the enclosure and then go back in.”
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Sea Lion Escapes From Central Park Zoo Enclosure During Flooding
The heavy rains that lashed New York City on Friday gave the marine mammal a chance to briefly explore the world outside her pool.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/nyregion/sea-lion-flooding-central-park-zoo.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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I have thought about Pangea Ultima since I learned about Pangea as a child
www.nytimes.com/2023/09/25/s...
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Mammals’ Time on Earth Is Half Over, Scientists Predict
A new model suggests that in 250 million years, all land will collide into a supercontinent that boosts warming and pushes mammals to extinction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/25/science/future-earth-warming-mammal-extinction.html
over 2 years ago
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The New York Times
over 2 years ago
This August was the planet’s hottest on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. June and July were also the warmest on record globally.
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My 91-year-old grandma has covid. This woman is my soul, my whole heart. The rage I feel at every public health decision that failed her is indescribable
over 2 years ago
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The New York Times
over 2 years ago
At least nine U.S. senators and representatives, both Democrats and Republicans, have sat on the NRA’s board of directors over the last half-century, helping the group exercise unrivaled power. This is the secret history of how they reshaped gun culture.
https://nyti.ms/3DDz820
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The unbearable pain of setting up all of your notifications and logging back into everything after you get a new laptop
over 2 years ago
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I wonder which Eldritch Terror resides in the moon’s hot spot
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/science/moon-hot-spot-granite.html
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Scientists Have Found a Hot Spot on the Moon’s Far Side
Data from two Chinese orbiters helped a team of scientists explain why a patch of lunar terrain is so much warmer than the surrounding area.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/science/moon-hot-spot-granite.html
over 2 years ago
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“Justice Thomas has received benefits — many of them previously unreported — from a broader cohort of wealthy and powerful friends.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/clarence-thomas-horatio-alger-association.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Where Clarence Thomas Entered an Elite Circle and Opened a Door to the Court
The exclusive Horatio Alger Association brought the justice access to wealthy members and unreported V.I.P. treatment. He, in turn, offered another kind of access.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/clarence-thomas-horatio-alger-association.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
over 2 years ago
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